Tag: historical badasses

Historical Badasses: Juana Azurduy

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South America is known for a number of things - the Amazon, Simon Bolivar, the Andes mountains, Machu Picchu, and more - but something it doesn't always get enough credit for is its long and rich military history. From inter-tribal indigenous warfare to Spanish conquistadores to cultures rebelling against the shackles

Historical Badasses: Peter Freuchen

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If you ever wanted to meet the real-life Most Interesting Man In The World, Peter Freuchen might honestly have been your best bet. This week, let's delve into some more Arctic exploration, and discover why this Danish explorer is unquestionably one of the coolest people to ever walk this earth. Peter

Historical Badasses: Khutulun

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Who's the greatest wrestler in history? Hulk Hogan? Ric Flair? The Iron Sheik? You'd think that it'd be a difficult question to answer, what with accounting for style preferences and attitudes and all, but as it turns out, it's actually very east to figure it out: it's Khutulun. And it's

Historical Badasses: Drukpa Kunley

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When we think of religions based around sex, I think it's safe to say that most of us probably gravitate immediately to the Branch Davidians of Waco and/or perhaps a few hardline Mormon citizens of Utah; no matter what you think of, though, chances are that it's likely a creepy

Historical Badasses: Thomas Fitzpatrick

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We've all done some stupid shit when drinking; dancing, fights, arguments, hook-ups, whatever can be done, humanity has done it many, many times over. But there are very, very few people who can claim to have drunkenly committed grand theft airplane and lived to tell the tale... not just once,

Historical Badasses: Ching Shih

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With Senor Weaselo publishing a piece very shortly on his adventures through China, this felt like an appropriate week to write about this topic. From Captain Hook to Blackbeard to Jack Sparrow, pirates have been romanticized in Western society for a long time. As many of us already know, there's not

Historical Badasses: Simo Häyhä

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Historical Badasses is a brand-new weekly offseason feature here at [DFO]; with 75% of teams now out of the running for the Super Bowl, it's prime time to start entertaining you with tales of some of the coolest people to ever walk the Earth. Each week we'll take a look